Following are samples of the anti-Israel narratives and anti-Israel rhetoric. Though the
content is a bit different in each case, the goals are the same:

Delegitimize Israel and the Jewish people

Establish Palestinian demands as "rights"

Establish the pro-Arab worldview - Israel came into being by "ethnic
cleansing" of Palestinians and is an illegitimate state

The Jewish people do not have a claim on the land, either because there
is no such thing as the Jewish people or because the Jews of today are not
the legitimate heirs of ancient Judaism.

Zionism is variously depicted as a religious movement, or as based on a
myth of strict descent of the Jews from Abraham.

Zionism is colonialist and inherently evil, rather than being a
legitimate national liberation movement.

The 1948 war occurred through no fault whatever of the Arab states or
the Palestinian Arabs, and was caused by the conspiracy of the Zionists to
eliminate the Arabs of Palestine. The "Nakba," the 1948 defeat, explained as
the fault of the Zionists, is a key event in the anti-Israel narrative.

A respectable Journalist: Rami Khoury

Rami Khoury is a respectable journalist who writes for the Daily Star in
Lebanon. He is considered a moderate. This article is typical of the most
moderate and sophisticated version of the Palestinian narrative. He will not
admit outright that his goal is the destruction of the Jewish state, but
falsifies history in order to discredit Zionism and make others reach this
conclusion.

For an alternative Arab view of the events of 1948, see this article on the
Palestinian Nakba.

Note that Khoury uses the formulation "Arab East Jerusalem," a Palestinian
propaganda slogan meant to imply that there is a part of Jerusalem that is
exclusively Arab.

Take the colonialism out of Zionism
By Rami G. Khouri
Daily Star staff
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

A juxtaposition of several simultaneous events this week indicates just how
difficult it is going to be to achieve any meaningful progress in Arab-Israeli
peace talks, when the heart of the conflict is land that Israelis and
Palestinians both claim as their ancestral patrimony. The four events are the
American drive to secure confidence-building measures from the Arabs in return
for Israelís freezing of its settlements in occupied Arab lands; Israelís demand
that Arabs recognize it as a "Jewish state"; the Israeli governmentís forcible
eviction of Arab families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah district of Arab
East Jerusalem; and the speaker of the Israeli Knesset, Reuven Rivlin,
unconvincingly showing that he understands how the creation of Israel in 1948
was such a "trauma" for Palestinians, who were made homeless and forced into
exile.

These events simultaneously highlight that ever since 1947-1948, the conflict
has been and continues to be defined by Zionist-Jewish ethnic cleansing of
Palestinian Arabs that generates sustained Arab resistance. It remains totally
in the realm of fantasy to expect the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab
world to formally recognize and live with Israel as a "Jewish state" when it
evicts dozens of Palestinians from homes they own in East Jerusalem and replaces
them with Jewish settlers. Such actions capture the single most sinister aspect
of Zionism that Arabs have fought, mostly unsuccessfully, for the past 60 years
or more.

Israelis now defy the United States along with the rest of the world in
continuing their settlement and colonization of Arab lands occupied in 1967. The
Obama administration will soon have to make the choice that has confronted all
other recent American leaderships: Does it try to force Israel to comply with
international law and United Nations resolutions and live according to rules
that all countries are asked to honor? Or, does it succumb to Israeli obstinacy
and the threats of the pro-Israel lobby in the US, and instead seek the easier
route of demanding more concessions from the Arabs in order to placate Israel?

The problem with demanding more Arab concessions and "confidence-building"
measures in order to make Israel feel secure enough to comply with the dictates
of law and morality is that this approach has failed consistently. Israel
continues to kill, imprison and expel Palestinians, and colonize their land. The
Arabs, not surprisingly, no longer will accept to play the fool by making
gestures to accept Israel while Israel keeps cleansing Jerusalem of its Arab
inhabitants.

The most depressing aspect of all this, going back to the 1940s, is that
Israelis refuse to acknowledge that what they see as the miracle of the birth of
their state came at the expense of the indigenous population. About half the
native Arab population of Palestine was exiled in 1947-1948, and they and their
descendants now comprise the 4.5 million refugees who mostly reside in lands
adjacent to their ancestral Palestine. Israel refuses to admit any role in the
creation of the refugee issue, despite extensive documentation by Israeli, Arab
and international historians of Israelís extensive ethnic cleansing campaigns
that deliberately drove out or caused over 700,000 Palestinians to flee during
the fighting.

Reuven Rivlin this week once again accentuated the Israeli collective blind
spot when it comes to acknowledging major responsibility for the dismemberment
and exile of the Palestinians. In remarks delivered Monday, according to a
Haaretz newspaper account, he called for a fundamental change in relations
between Jews and Arabs in Israel, urging the founding of a "true partnership"
between the two sectors, based on mutual respect, absolute equality and the
addressing of "the special needs and unique character of each of the sides."

In his speech, Rivlin was to say that "the establishment of Israel was
accompanied by much pain and suffering and a real trauma for the Palestinians
(in large part due to the shortsightedness of the Palestinian leadership). Many
of Israelís Arabs, which see themselves as part of the Palestinian population,
feel the pain of their brothers across the green line Ė a pain they feel the
state of Israel is responsible for."

Thatís it? Rivlin admitted that the wholesale dismemberment, occupation and
exile of Arab Palestine was something that "accompanied" the creation of Israel,
but he would not admit that the two were causally linked. Native Americans also
experienced some trauma when the American colonies were created and expanded
into an independent country, but were these two independent and unrelated
experiences?

If Israelis really want to coexist with the Arabs, they will have to summon
the courage and honesty to admit how Zionism dismembered Arab Palestine in
1947-1948, and Jews everywhere must finally break the ugly bond between Zionism
and colonialism.

In other words, if Israel wants to exist in the Middle East, it must
acquiesce in the lie that Zionists started the war in 1948 and that the Arab
crusade to destroy Israel was legitimate. Of course, once that is admitted, the
basis is provided for destroying Israel.

A radical Columbia Professor: Joseph Massad

Joseph Massad was given tenure at Columbia University, presumably because his
views about the Jewish question coincide with those of the Columbia Middle East
Studies establishment. In this article, he "explains" that peace can only be
achieved by dismemberment of Israel and therefore all Israeli peace initiatives
are counterfeit.

The basic themes of this article are that any manifestation of Jewish
national rights is inherently racist, Israel is a racist state, and the only way
to achieve "peace" is to dismember Israel as a Jewish state.

Israel's Right to Be
Racist By: Joseph Massad*

Posted on May 5, 2007

http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General/Story2289.html

Israel's struggle for peace is a sincere one. In fact, Israel desires to live
at peace not only with its neighbors, but also and especially with its own
Palestinian population, and with Palestinians whose lands it military occupies
by force. Israel's desire for peace is not only rhetorical but also substantive
and deeply psychological. With few exceptions, prominent Zionist leaders since
the inception of colonial Zionism have desired to establish peace with the
Palestinians and other Arabs whose lands they slated for colonization and
settlement. The only thing Israel has asked for, and continues to ask for in
order to end the state of war with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbors, is
that all recognize its right to be a racist state that discriminates by law
against Palestinians and other Arabs and grants differential legal rights and
privileges to its own Jewish citizens and to all other Jews anywhere. The
resistance that the Palestinian people and other Arabs have launched against
Israel's right to be a racist state is what continues to stand between Israel
and the peace for which it has struggled and to which it has been committed for
decades. Indeed, this resistance is nothing less than the "New anti-Semitism".

Israel is willing to do anything to
convince Palestinians and other Arabs of why it needs and deserves to
have the right to be racist. Even at the level of theory, and before it
began to realise itself on the ground, the Zionist colonial project
sought different means by which it could convince the people whose lands
it wanted to steal and against whom it wanted to discriminate to accept
as understandable its need to be racist. All it required was that the
Palestinians "recognize its right to exist" as a racist state. Military
methods were by no means the only persuasive tools available; there were
others, including economic and cultural incentives. Zionism from the
start offered some Palestinians financial benefits if they would accede
to its demand that it should have the right to be racist. Indeed, the
State of Israel still does. Many Palestinian officials in the
Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization have
been offered and have accepted numerous financial incentives to
recognize this crucial Israeli need. Those among the Palestinians who
regrettably continue to resist are being penalized for their
intransigence by economic choking and starvation, supplemented by
regular bombardment and raids, as well as international isolation. These
persuasive methods, Israel hopes, will finally convince a recalcitrant
population to recognize the dire need of Israel to be a racist state.
After all, Israeli racism only manifests in its flag, its national
anthem, and a bunch of laws that are necessary to safeguard Jewish
privilege, including the Law of Return (1950), the Law of Absentee
Property (1950), the Law of the State's Property (1951), the Law of
Citizenship (1952), the Status Law (1952), the Israel Lands
Administration Law (1960), the Construction and Building Law (1965), and
the 2002 temporary law banning marriage between Israelis and
Palestinians of the occupied territories.

"After all, Israeli racism only manifests in its flag,
its national anthem, and a bunch of laws that are necessary to safeguard
Jewish privilege"

Let us start with why Israel and Zionism need to ensure that Israel remains a
racist state by law and why it deserves to have that right. The rationale is
primarily threefold and is based on the following claims.

Jews are always in danger out in the wide world; only in a state that
privileges them racially and religiously can they be safe from gentile
oppression and can prosper. If Israel removed its racist laws and symbols
and became a non-racist democratic state, Jews would cease to be a majority
and would be like Diaspora Jews, a minority in a non-Jewish state. These
concerns are stated clearly by Israeli leaders individually and
collectively. Shimon Peres, for example, the dove of official Israel, has
been worried for some time about the Palestinian demographic "danger", as
the Green Line, which separates Israel from the West Bank, is beginning to
"disappear ... which may lead to the linking of the futures of West Bank
Palestinians with Israeli Arabs". He hoped that the arrival of 100,000 Jews
in Israel would postpone this demographic "danger" for 10 more years, as
ultimately, he stressed, "demography will defeat geography".

In December 2000, the Institute of Policy and Strategy at the Herzliya
Interdisciplinary Centre in Israel held its first of a projected series of
annual conferences dealing with the strength and security of Israel,
especially with regards to maintaining Jewish demographic majority. Israel's
president and current and former prime ministers and cabinet ministers were
all in attendance. One of the "Main Points" identified in the 52-page
conference report is concern over the numbers needed to maintain Jewish
demographic and political supremacy of Israel

Jews are carriers of Western civilization and constitute an Asian
station defending both Western civilization and economic and political
interests against Oriental terrorism and barbarism. If Israel transformed
itself into a non-racist state, then its Arab population would undermine the
commitment to Western civilization and its defense of the West's economic
and political interests, and might perhaps transform Jews themselves into a
Levantine barbaric population. Here is how
Ben Gurion once put it: "We do not want Israelis to become Arabs. We are
in duty bound to fight against the spirit of the Levant, which corrupts
individuals and societies, and preserve the authentic Jewish values as they
crystallized in the [European] Diaspora." [Ben-Gurion never made any
such statement.] Indeed Ben Gurion was clear on the
Zionist role of defending these principles: "We are not Arabs, and others
measure us by a different standard ... our instruments of war are different
from those of the Arabs, and only our instruments can guarantee our
victory." More recently, Israel's ambassador to Australia, Naftali Tamir,
stressed that: "We are in Asia without the characteristics of Asians. We
don't have yellow skin and slanted eyes. Asia is basically the yellow race.
Australia and Israel are not -- we are basically the white race."

God has given this land to the Jews and told them to safeguard
themselves against gentiles who hate them. To make Israel a non-Jewish state
then would run the risk of challenging God Himself. This position is not
only upheld by Jewish and Christian fundamentalists, but even by erstwhile
secular Zionists (Jews and Christians alike). Ben Gurion himself understood,
as does Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, that: "God promised it to us."
[Ben Gurion never made any such statement]

It is important to stress that this Zionist rationale is correct on all
counts if one accepts the proposition of Jewish exceptionalism. Remember that
Zionism and Israel are very careful not to generalize the principles that
justify Israel's need to be racist but are rather vehement in upholding it as an
exceptional principle. It is not that no other people has been oppressed
historically, it is that Jews have been oppressed more. It is not that no other
people's cultural and physical existence has been threatened; it is that the
Jews' cultural and physical existence is threatened more. This quantitative
equation is key to why the world, and especially Palestinians, should recognize
that Israel needs and deserves to have the right to be a racist state. If the
Palestinians, or anyone else, reject this, then they must be committed to the
annihilation of the Jewish people physically and culturally, not to mention that
they would be standing against the Judeo-Christian God...

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Comment - The article is truncated to ensure we are not violating copyright,
and because by now you should have read enough to have understood the underlying
principles. The thesis of Massad, a supposedly respectable Columbia University
professor, is racist. He misquotes Ben Gurion and attributes to Ben Gurion
preposterous sentiments about "God" - considering that Ben Gurion was an
agnostic socialist. He certainly never believed that "God" promised the land to
the Jews or that that was the reason for Zionism. Ben Gurion warned against the
"Levantine mentality" not against Jews becoming Arabs. Massad repeats
anti-Semitic shibboleths about Jewish exceptionalism (also known as
"exclusivism" "chosen people" etc.). The whole point of Zionism of course, was
not that Jews are exceptional, but rather that Jews ought NOT to be exceptional.
Jews should be a nation like any other nation, rather than dispersed in the
Diaspora to atone for sins real or imagined. Whether or not Naftali Tamir or
anyone else ever made a silly and racist statement like the one quoted above,
the fact remains that nearly half of Israel's Jews are descendants of refugees
from Arab countries, and Israeli Jews including black African Ehtiopians as
well. Europe, for that matter, is becoming increasingly Arabized. The
demographic problem exists in Israel only if and because Arabs define themselves
as enemies of Jewish self determination. The fear is that an Arab majority would
turn Israel into just another Diaspora state in which Jews have no national
rights.

It is amusing and appalling to see how Massad stands both Zionism and truth
on their heads, and serves up a farrago of misquotes, racism and fiction as if
they were established facts.

The Vulgar and Frank Version: A Palestinian Facebook
Cause

This "cause" spells out the basics of the anti-Israel narrative: Arabs are
Semites and therefore cannot be anti-Semitic (a deliberately ignorant
misunderstanding of the word <a href="http://www.zionism-israel.com/dic/Anti-Semitism.htm">Anti-Semitism</a>,
which was coined by German anti-Semites to refer to Jew hate). The Jews of today
are impostors who are not descendants of the ancient Jews and they have no claim
on the land.

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/101078

israel is not a country

This cause does not attack any causes or individuals. Our goal is to reach a
peaceful solution. It simply states that "Israel" is presently an Apartheid
regime

Donations Go
To: THE PALESTINE RIGHT TO RETURN COALITION A 501(c)(3) nonprofit

Positions:

strongly condemns racism and does not tolerate it.

Criticism of illegitimate Apartheid Israel which has no right to
exist, cannot be regarded as anti-Semitc

advocate the peaceful transformation of Palestine into one
single, united, peaceful, democratic state from the river to the
sea.

strongly condemns
racism and does not tolerate it. Criticism of illegitimate
Apartheid-"Israel", which has no right to exist, cannot be regarded as
anti-Semitic, even according to the international working definition of
anti-Semitism that was accepted and adopted in 2005.
Furthermore, we would like to educate about the differences between
"Zionism" "Judaism" and "Semitic People", which are three very distinct
things that are not interchangeable. This is important because
"Israelis" accuse people of anti-Semitism every time someone criticizes
"Israel," not much unlike the way many call people that criticize Bush's
policies anti-American.

The first one is easy; anyone can be a Zionist without being the other
two. You can be a Muslim Arab and be Zionist. Many American Evangelical
or born again Christians are Zionists.

Jewish but not Zionist: Many Jews, including Rabbis, and religious Jews
oppose Zionism and believe that Judaism prohibits it (and it does.
Zionism is a secular concept, and there are things in the Old Testament
that forbid Zionism See
http://jewsnotzionists.org . Many Jews
protest against Zionism and "Israel" all the time, often in NY. Israel
is very secular, with only about 5% of its population identifying
themselves as religious. Orthodox Jews refuse to serve in the military
of the Zionists because of their religious beliefs. Also see: http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/ It also works the other way too; "Israel" barely
tolerates Judaism and its actions go against the beliefs and teaching
Judaism.

Jewish but not Semitic: Thirdly, a Semite is "a member of any of various
ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including
the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs" (dictionary.com).
Arabs are Semites and are descendants of Abraham, unlike most Jews, who
are mainly Europeans and Americans. So really, European Zionists who are
racist towards Arabs are the ones who are "anti-Semitic". Lets not
forget that Judaism began with Moses, not Abraham, and that Muslims and
Christians also consider Abraham and Moses as their prophets. In fact,
anyone can convert to Judaism and immediately become an "Israeli"
citizen, under the law of "return". The utilization of the Star of David
on the flag they use is also a tool so that Zionists could accuse
opposition of being anti-Semitic. (Note: Zionists have a claimed a
monopoly on "anti-semitism", alleging that the person who "coined" it
intended it only for them. This is yet another Zionist myth. Anyone with
an elementary education knows that adding the prefix "anti-" means
"opposing" or "against", which is all this person did to the word
"semitic")

80-90% of Jews today are "Ashkenazi " (which is the term for European
Jews that are descendants of converts, unrelated to the original tribes
of Israel, and speak Yiddish, not Hebrew). 80-90% of all Jews in the
world today are not even Semites! In fact, in "Israel" Sefardic and
Mizrachi Jews (Arab, Iranian, north African, or middle eastern Jews, for
examples), the real Jews of the Torah, are discriminated against heavily
in many aspects! Semitic Jews are aware of this fact, and thatís why
they don't go to "Israel" (or flee from "Israel") and choose to live in
the United States OR EVEN STAY IN OTHER PARTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST over
living in the Secular, non-Semitic, European-occupied territory!! Many
of the Semitic Jews have been in Palestine for thousands of years, never
even left Palestine and resisted & opposed the occupation of the
European Zionists. Criticism of "Israel" cannot be regarded as
anti-Semitic.
Criticizing "Israel" does not make a person an anti-Semite. This is
political propaganda, some of which we have seen the Bush Administration
use against Americans that criticize it. If you criticize the war or the
administration they call you unpatriotic, un-American, a traitor, a
terrorist/terrorist-sympathizer, etc...

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